Editorial review
Life Hacks for Healing & Harmony
By Tara Mae Temple
It’s never too late to give yourself some love.
Reviewed by CANREADS
It’s never too late to give yourself some love.
In the vein of author Julia Cameron, who writes about the value and benefits of journalling and focused affirmations, Tara Mae Temple’s Life Hacks for Healing & Harmony offers readers a faith-based guide with practical and relatable strategies for navigating life’s challenges through tools that cultivate and actualize inner peace. With a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts in Sociology and Communications from York University, Temple draws on her sociological expertise as well as her own personal challenges to provide a meaningful framework for women to explore and ultimately discover their authentic selves.
Temple tackles the many real, everyday struggles for so many women, who often try to be everything to everyone. In Life Hacks for Healing & Harmony, she touches on an assortment of issues we might face every day, including overcoming social anxiety, reframing negative mindsets, fixing complicated relationships, conquering invisibility, handling identity crises, struggling with self-image, preventing fear paralysis, and cultivating self-compassion. As such, Temple masterfully speaks on a breadth of issues, rightly understanding the many complexities of building oneself up.
What’s so effective about Temple’s approach to healing is how she centres practicality. Within each chapter, she includes actionable exercises, journal page prompts, and focused affirmations. Life Hacks for Healing and Harmony is a road map for facing everyday struggles as it directs readers to look for the sign posts and signals that quietly direct them to “ways to rise to their potential by pursuing the blueprint that God has set forth for them.” For example, in the chapter “Banishing the Monster Within,” Temple delves into the familiar negative self-talk that so many of us tend to engage in, which in turn destroys our self-worth. Tools and tips to release self-sabotage, confront the monster, and purify the soul are tabled in simple and doable action steps, which are supported by exercises to embark on a spiritual journey forward. Paired with targeted affirmations, Temple provides aspiration-replenishing guideposts for the tough road of healing ahead.
Moreover, Temple’s honest approach of sharing her own life experiences takes Life Hacks for Healing & Harmony beyond a mere self-help book. She truly connects with readers, gifting them the peace and sense of relief that they’re not the only ones mired in the “duality of dark versus light and evil versus good.” Through personal reflection and practical wisdom, Temple creates a compassionate space for readers to move forward with confidence.
Deeply empathetic and intimate, Temple unabashedly shares her life struggles while providing the tips, tools, resources, and spiritual steps that she’s taken to get to a place of peace and harmony. Life Hacks for Healing & Harmony functions as both an invaluable personal development guide and a practical companion for readers seeking meaningful change. Grounded in Christian values and faith-based reflection, the book will resonate most strongly with those looking for spiritual guidance alongside actionable tools for growth. “You only get one chance to live, right?” Temple says, and she doesn’t want us to waste it.
—CANREADS BOOK REVIEW